Reference
X21/754
Title
Scrapbook apparently kept by Harry Morrison of Woburn [born 1870].
Date free text
1850 - 1950
Production date
From: 1850 To: 1950
Scope and Content
Contents include
Various newpaper cuttings regarding Woburn, the Dukes of Bedford and family, and local affairs theatre programmes (many for performances by Irving) and theatrical cigarette cards
Poems, reports and letters written by H Morrison on a variety of matters of local interest, including 'Lines composed on the death of Mr J Sergeant's donkey, Neddy', 20 February 1890
Letters and poems addressed to him, from H Raper, (page 15), J Cowan (page 17)
Family information i.e. memorial card on the death of his grandmother, Ruth, 17 April 1892 (page 23) and the Pledge signed by him, 1879
Programme for Bedford Opera Season, 1894, at which 'Martha' and 'Cavalleria Rusticana' were performed (page 1).
'A Jubilee Ode' written by F N Roberts, 8, High Street, Woburn, 1887 (page 3)
4 lines of verse marked 'written ..at Bedford.. by G W E Russell, the Under Secretary of State. HM' 30 November 1894 (page 3)
Annual Report regarding Woburn Flower Show, May 1900 (page 8)
Woburn Literary,Scientific and Mechanics Institute, programme for penny readings, 3 March 1869 (page 24)
Watercolour of Woburn Church (page 27)
'Steady Heart and Purpose Strong' - a sermon suggested by Mr Stead's imprisonment and preached by Rowland Hill. Published at the Mercury Press, Bedford, 1886 (page 27).
'England and Ireland' by Rowland Hill, 1888 (page 29).'A letter from the Devil' (page 37)
Political poster headed 'Grand Monkey Show' [1879?] (page 55)
Programme for a Smoking Concert at Woburn, 1895 (page 61)
Programme for a recital by Paderewski at Bedford
Corn Exchange, 28 March 1895 (page 68)
Programme for Grand Concert at the Corn Exchange, Bedford, 31 January 1895 (page 65)
Programme for a Grand Sacred Concert at Zaro's Circus, Bedford, 4 December 1898 (page 66)
Official Programme for the Diamond Jubilee Procession, 22 June 1897 (page 67) 45th Report of the Woburn & Dunstable United Branch Bible Society, 1857 (page 77)
Programme for Whist Drive and Dance at Woburn Town Hall, to provide comforts for the troops, 26 September [1917] (page 77)
Reprint of speech in the House of Lords by the Duke of Bedford on 'Post War Settlement', 2 June 1942 (page 77)
Bedford Musical Society. Analytical Programme of concert at the Corn Exchange, Bedford, 23 October 1894 (page 77)
Golden Peace edition of the 'Daily Mail' 30 June 1919 (loose at back of volume)
Level of description
item